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(49) Scoparia ischnias Meyr. 

 Xeroscopa ischnias Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 235. 



cT?- 17 — 21 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, more or less mixed with 

 white. Palpi dark fuscous, base and tips white. Antennae in ^ pubescent-ciliated 

 over whole surface. Abdomen ochreous-grey. Forewings very narrow, fuscous, 

 irregularly irrorated with white and black ; a streak of blackish suffusion along fold 

 from base to first line, interrupted by an undefined white central dot ; first line white, 

 almost straight, rather strongly oblique, posteriorly dark-edged ; orbicular and clavi- 

 form dot-like, undefined, blackish, separate, orbicular obliquely beyond claviform ; 

 discal undefined, X-shaped, blackish, preceded by a small cloudy white spot ; second 

 and subterminal lines cloudy, white, approximated in middle, second interrupted 

 towards dorsum : cilia white, with fuscous subapical and dark fuscous subbasal lines. 

 Hindwings fuscous-whitish, termen suffused with light fuscous; cilia white, with light 

 fuscous basal line. (Plate VII. fig. 24.) 



5 specimens, Haleakala, Maui, at 9000 — 10,000 feet, in April and May. Probably 

 the original type was from the same locality. 



(50) Scoparia nielanopis Meyr. 



Scoparia coarctata van .'' iiioiitana Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 41. 



Xeroscopa melanopis Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 233. 



No examples of this species were obtained by Mr Perkins ; there is one in 

 the British Museum, and two in my collection ; Mr Blackburn gives as locality the 

 mountains near Honolulu, Oahu. Two specimens are mentioned by Butler in the 

 reference quoted above, but one of these is, I think, a poor example of frigida ; 

 the other is this species, and now bears a type-label, which it did not in 1888. 

 Considering this fact, and also that (i) Butler's name is varietal, not specific, being 

 wrongly identified with angustea {coarctata), (2) there is practically no description 

 accompanying it, I have therefore not used his name. 



(51) Scoparia viacrophanes Meyr. 



Scoparia macrophanes Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 231. 



^. 17 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous mixed with white, palpi with 



dark fuscous median band, base white. Abdomen grey, segmental margins whitish. 

 Forewings very narrow, fuscous, suffusedly irrorated with white, with scattered black 

 scales; indications of a dark subbasal fascia; first line white, moderately oblique, 



